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Recognition of MATHCOUNTS regional competition winners
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Mike Bartusek, Pikes Peak Regional Coordinator
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Each year, the Pikes Peak Chapter of Professional Engineers of Colorado sponsors the local MATHCOUNTS competition series, hosting teams from local middle schools who have a talent and passion for math. Students engage in exciting, “bee-style” contests, and have the opportunity to win scholarships and prizes and to move on to state and national-level competition.
This year’s regional competition, the 34th annual, was held at Mountain Ridge Middle School on Saturday, February 11. Teams from 10 local middle schools with 80 students participated in the advanced mathematics contest.
The top teams were:
Mountain Ridge Middle School - 1st Place Team of Achyut Nambiar, Prabhnoor Paul, Artharva Vispute, and Ari Wang
Challenger Middle School - Danny Cho, Caleb Chung, Nathan Jensen, Lauren Shrack
Other outstanding individual finalists going to the State competition are:
Christian Wacker from Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School
Jacob Vollmer from Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School
Noa Mabon from Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School
Arthur Knize from Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School
Gryphon Patlin from The Classical Academy
Noah Schneiderman from Timberview Middle School
Carson Echeverria from Mountain Ridge Middle School
All of these young people will represent our region in the state competition at the University of Denver on March 18, 2017.
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